Francis Nicholson

Francis Nicholson (12 November 1655-16 March 1728) was the Governor of the Thirteen Colonies from 1694 to 1715.

Biography
Nicholson was from Yorkshire, and he served in the military since the 1678 war with Louis XIV of France. He headed to Tangier in 1680 to serve in the 2nd Tangier Regiment, and in 1685 he crushed James Scott of Monmouth's rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor. In 1688 he was posted to the Thirteen Colonies, crushing a Jacobite rebellion in the Province of Boston and one in New York a year later. Three years later, he became the Governor of Maryland from 1694 to 1698, Virginia from 1698 to 1705, and Nova Scotia from 1712 to 1715. During his tenure as Governor, he defended Port Royal from a French and Abenaki attack in 1710.